Gamble
['gæmb(ə)l] or ['ɡæmbl]
Definition
(noun.) a risky act or venture.
(noun.) money that is risked for possible monetary gain.
(verb.) play games for money.
(verb.) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; 'When you buy these stocks you are gambling'.
Editor: Rochelle--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To play or game for money or other stake.
(v. t.) To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.
Checker: Newman
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Game, play for money, practise gaming.
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Definition
v.i. to play for money in games of chance or skill: to engage in wild financial speculations.—v.t. to squander away.—n. a gambling transaction.—ns. Gam′bler one who gambles esp. who makes it his business; Gam′bling-house a house kept for the accommodation of people who play at games of hazard for money.
Typist: Suzy
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are gambling and win, signifies low associations and pleasure at the expense of others. If you lose, it foretells that your disgraceful conduct will be the undoing of one near to you.
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Examples
- Fourdrinier to engage with them in bringing the machinery to perfection, and patents obtained in this country by Mr. Gamble were assigned to them in 1804. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But what reformers have to learn is that men don't gamble just for the sake of violating the law. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And once there was a young man in America who gambled till he had lost his last dollar. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When she got her money she gambled; when she had gambled it she was put to shifts to live; who knows how or by what means she succeeded? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They had gambled deeply in the prospective looting of Manchuria and China, and they would suffer no withdrawal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Major, the Captain, any one of those gambling men whom Madame sees would take her life for a hundred louis. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was the same with gambling. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Only there's one thing I order you to avoid, which, if you do not, I'll cut you off with a shilling, by Jove; and that's gambling. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In Siam these fish are kept in glass globes, as we keep goldfish, for the purpose of fighting, and an extravagant amount of gambling takes place about the result of the fights. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If he extends the meaning of immoral at all, it is to the vices most closely allied to sex--drink and gambling. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He had looked on at a great deal of gambling in Paris, watching it as if it had been a disease. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- John gambles dreadfully, and always loses--poor boy! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Typist: Tito